No, not the illegal kind, and not the automotive kind. Rather the kind you get when you put on and lace up a pair of boots that happen to be attached to a 1/4 inch blade of steel. Then you walk onto a flat surface of ice. Then you take off and stroke, harder and harder till all you can feel is the wind, you yourself have created, against your face and the sweat you are starting to build up going around and around the rink. Then you hear the sound, the best sound in the world next to the sounds of my own children's voices, the sound of the blades scraping against the ice. That is one of my all time favorite sounds, steel against ice. Then, when you have that speed up to a comforting one that starts to relax you, you quickly change your edge and go into a jump. For me it would probably be a flip. For some reason this is the jump I could launch into at a fast speed. You go up into the air and for just a split second, while you are hanging in the air and turning, you feel carefree. Some may remember one of my first blogs and the flying thing, feeling weightless, like being under water. This is kind of like that. It only lasts a split second on the ice but the feeling is amazing. When I first moved here to Keokuk I was skating at least twice a week, trying to get ready for adult nationals in California. I know that that is not going to happen now but I still have the skates and I know where there is a rink.
Like my workouts, skating has always had the same effect on me.
I think it is time to put the skates back on.
Not so cheery but trying to see the glass half full so....
Cheers!
A
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